Since September 2020, ECP has been working with a group of children and young people who have shared their experiences of poverty and captured its impact on our Young people talk poverty page (more to follow in the coming months). To celebrate what other young people are doing around the UK to challenge child poverty, […]
Even before the pandemic, 4.3 million children were living in poverty, up 200,000 from the previous year – and up 500,000 over the past five years. North East England shows the greatest growth in child poverty over the past five years and has risen by a third, taking it from below the UK average to […]
The End Child Poverty coalition has today issued a statement on the decision by the Chancellor to extend the £20 increase to Universal Credit for just six months. This offers children in poverty a small lifeline but the coalition is warning that, given the extent of the child poverty crisis before the pandemic, it will […]
children have been pulled into poverty by the two-child limit to benefit payments since this government came to power
